About Tonine
Tonine Garberino is a licensed mental health counselor who uses a practical, goal-focused approach to help people manage stress and anxiety. She draws on 17 years of experience to guide clients through addictions, relationship concerns, mood difficulties, and major life changes. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at helping people take concrete steps forward.
She explains feelings and thoughts in simple terms and works with clients to build coping skills that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a frequent part of her work, helping people notice unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Sessions often focus on small, doable changes clients can practice between meetings. Garberino also supports people facing issues around identity, intimacy, body image, parenting roles, and career stress.
She brings experience with mood disorders such as depression and bipolar symptoms, and with attention and focus challenges like ADHD. When relevant, she addresses trauma, dissociation, and the stress that follows major life events. People meet her for problems ranging from eating and self-esteem to communication and commitment concerns.
She also works with adoption and foster care questions, blended family dynamics, and fatherhood issues. Her background in both Florida and New Jersey settings informs a flexible, practical approach. In sessions she aims to create a nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through difficult topics and try new ways of coping.
Her focus is on steady progress, clear tools, and helping people feel more capable in daily life.
Using CBT and focused strategies in online therapy
Tonine Garberino often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients spot unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of responding. CBT sessions typically combine discussion with simple exercises and homework that aim to reduce anxiety, manage mood, or change patterns that feed addictions.She pairs that with clear, practical skill-building for managing stress, enhancing communication, and improving self-esteem. The therapist and client work together to choose which approaches fit best based on the person’s goals and lifestyle, making adjustments as progress unfolds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports short check-ins, and text messaging lets people send updates or practice skills between meetings. These options make scheduling easier for people balancing work, family, and other commitments, and allow continuity of care across locations.
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Specialties and expertise
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Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New Jersey
- Languages
- English